INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 681 Amsterdam, October 11th, 2017 KOSMIC ONTOLOGY AND THE EAST-WEST QUATERNITY - JOE CORBETT Based on the writings of Plotinus and the early Church fathers, the neo-platonic Greek and Christian doctrines of a metaphysical Trinity is well known. Less well known is that this Trinity is actually a Quaternity. Officially since 1950 in the Catholic Church, Mother Mary has been recognized as the fourth ontological foundation of the universe, and Plotinus actually divided the third term in his trinity (World Soul) into upper-mental and lower-material aspects, yielding a fourth from the three. Thus, the so-called Trinity is and always has been, in fact, a Quaternity (just as the doctrinal trinity of the AQAL is and always has been, in fact, a qauternity of Truth, Beauty, Goodness, and JUSTICE). Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/corbett49.html WHY BUDDHISM IS TRUE - BARCLAY POWERS Robert Wright's book, Why Buddhism Is True, is a good example of the current total mistranslation of the single most valid and important scientific insight of Buddhism, the Buddha Nature, the central error in secular Buddhist and Western psychological attempts to explain Nirvana/Buddhahood. It also demonstrates the ability of any psychologist who meditates for twenty years or so to creatively imagine that their understanding of emptiness, the Tao, the non-self and Buddhahood is accurate. Since the book is also titled The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment, the text is another example in which closet religious conversion occurs in a psychologist who then triumphantly proclaims Buddhism is a science, which "holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness." To his credit he does acknowledge that the Buddhist narrative is a "fighting the devil (Mara)" story. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/powers23.html